Curriculum framework for employability readiness skills: sustainable industry engagement

The Employer Perspective on Sustainable Employability in the Construction Industry.

OBJECTIVE To determine the measures employers in the construction industry take to promote sustainable employability, the barriers and facilitators that influence implementation and employer needs. METHODS Questionnaire among 499 employers and interviews with 17 employers. RESULTS Employers expressed a need for alternative jobs for workers who can no longer perform physically demanding task...

E-Skills, Competitiveness and Employability

In Europe in particular, the so-called Lisbon Strategy has enhanced efforts to mobilize active economic and social forces around education, innovation and knowledge intensive sectors and activities such as information and communications technologies. At the same time, European institutions and national governments have pursued their efforts to deepen and strengthen a European social model where...

Sustainable employability in the construction sector

Diabetes and sustainable employability: A qualitative study

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most challenging problems for health, impacting many aspects of individual s lives, including employment. Sustainable employability refers to one s attributes and skills to be able to perform a chosen occupation, benefitting oneself and society in the long term. It is not directly affected by diabetes, yet assessment is different for every case and highly depende...

Curriculum Learning for Motor Skills

Humans and animals acquire their wide repertoire of motor skills through an incremental learning process, during which progressively more complex skills are acquired and subsequently integrated with prior abilities. Inspired by this general idea, we develop an approach for learning motor skills based on a two-level curriculum. At the high level, the curriculum specifies an order in which differ...